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WRITE AN EQUATION You Bought a 5 Magazine and Four Erasers. You Spent a Total of 25 How Much Did Each Eraser Cost?

Question

WRITE AN EQUATION You bought a 5 magazine and four erasers. You spent a total of 25 How much did each eraser cost?

Solution

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Resposta

The cost of each eraser is $5.

Explicação

## Step 1Let's denote the cost of each eraser as . According to the problem, the total cost of the magazine and four erasers is $25. This can be represented by the equation:### ## Step 2To solve for , we first isolate the term with on one side of the equation. We do this by subtracting 5 from both sides of the equation.### ## Step 3Simplify the right side of the equation to get:### ## Step 4Finally, to solve for , we divide both sides of the equation by 4.###